The story of the ‘Ural’, the USSR’s most popular motorbike everywhere… except Russia!
August 10, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin participates in the international bike show in Sevastopol at the wheel of a motorcycle Ural with a sidecar. On the left - the Head of the Republic of Crimea, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan Sergey Aksenov Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik A small factory one and a half kilometers (about one mile) outside of Moscow produces just five to six bikes with sidecars per day, whose riders include celebrities like Brad Pitt and Steven Tyler. Oddly enough, these bikes sell terribly in Russia. We’ll tell you how that happened…